Monday, Dec. 12, 7pm via Zoom
Presented by Jana Millbocker
Start the holiday season off right with a fantastic tour of gardens in winter with Jana Milbocker of Enchanted Gardens. Visit magnificently decorated conservatories and mansions and beautifully lit gardens during the holiday season!
Through December 31
Artist Reception Saturday, December 3
1-3pm Activity Room
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Artist Statement: Joy for me is being outside in the woods where trees are constant friends. The sunlit oak marking a turn in the trail, the row of maples I pass on a bike ride, the old pasture pine outside my Adirondack shack – I love these trees.
Friday, December 16This month Cooks & Books will celebrate the holiday season with a festive feast of holiday appetizers while also sharing recipes for favorites holiday cocktails and mocktails. Mushroom Palmiers? Devils on Horseback? Spicy cheddar crackers?
The book for December is The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota.
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The book for December is Death at the Chateau Bremont by M. L. Longworth. Set in charming and historic Aix-en-Provence, France, Death at the Château Bremont introduces readers to Antoine Verlaque, the handsome and seductive chief magistrate of Aix, and his on-again, off-again love interest, law professor Marine Bonnet.
Wednesday, December 7
Zoom meeting at 7pm
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Our next book is The Edge of the World: a Cultural History of the North Sea and the Transformation of Europe by Michael Pye. Saints and spies, pirates and philosophers, artists and intellectuals: they all criss-crossed the grey North Sea in the so-called “dark ages,” the years between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of Europe’s mastery over the oceans.
Tuesday, December 20
1-2pm in the Activity Room
Want to brush up or improve your French with a conversation hour? Claudine is a native French speaker, born in Paris and raised in Europe; following a 30 year Government career abroad, she chose Stone Ridge to retire in.
Tuesday, December 27
1-2 pm in the Activity Room
¿Hablas español? If you would like to brush up on your Spanish conversation skills and meet other language lovers in a friendly and stress free environment, come join our class on Zoom, every 4th Tuesday of the month from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm.
Thursdays, December 1, 8
on Zoom 1:30 – 3:00
Join us for an afternoon of poetry with Rosemary Deen. We meet the first and third Thursday of the month via Zoom.
Please contact Rosemary at rmdeen@gmail.com if you’d like to join the group.
Every Saturday
10am-noon in the Activity Room
The Stone Ridge Library Knitters meet every Saturday morning from 10am – 12noon. All ages and experience levels can join us and drop-in knitters are also welcome. We each bring our own supplies and do our own work, but one of the best things about us is that whatever obstacle or confusion you might encounter, you’re likely to receive as much comment and advice as you need to get where you’re going with a project.
Group 1:
December 12
4:00-6:30pm in the Activity Room
Group 2:
December 5, 19
4:00-6:30pm in the Activity Room
Two separate writers’ groups meet on alternate Mondays at the library in the Activity room, with a maximum of 10 participants in each group.
Every Tuesday and Friday
at 10am in the Activity Room
If you are a Mahjong beginner, join us for our Tuesday group. No registration is required. We do encourage players to wear mask while entering and exiting the library, but once you are in the Activity Room, it is up to the group’s discretion.
